USGS Loc. 13507, Falls City Limestone formation (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Riley County, Kansas (39.1° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 28.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falls City Limestone Formation (Admire Group), Noginskian (301.2 - 300.1 Ma)

• The authors placed the Falls City in the Permian, but more recent data indicates it is late Carboniferous.

•The Noginskian Stage is reported as equivalent to the Virgilian Stage.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: M. R. Mudge, E. L. Yochelson, R. C. Douglas, H. Duncan, H. L. Strimple, M. Gordon, Jr., and D. H. Dunkle. 1962. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Uppermost Pennsylvanian and Lowermost Permian Rocks in Kansas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 323:1-213 [A. Miller/C. Ferguson/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11717: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Chad Ferguson on 31.08.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Juresania nebrascensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852
 Orthotetida - Derbyiidae
Derbyia cf. crassa Meek and Hayden 1858
Stenolaemata
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
Listed as Fenestrate Bryozoans
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Listed as Ramose Bryozoans [entered as "Terpostomata"]
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Glabrocingulum sp. Thomas 1940 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Amphiscapha muricata Knight 1934 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam
Septimyalina cf. burmai Newell 1942 clam
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
 Pectinida - Pseudomonotidae
Pseudomonotis sp. von Beyrich 1862 scallop
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae